I know this is a pairing that many people are going to be objecting to, but I wanted to do it. Please no flames.
"I called Jean over on Muir Island with Moira MacTaggert," Ororo Munroe said walking in the classroom.
Scott looked up from a paper he was grading, "How is she?"
Ororo sat in a chair near his desk, "She's good. She'll be done with medical school within another year."
Scott sat back, "I can't believe she'll be getting done three years early."
"I can't believe she wants to go back and get a degree in forensic psychology. She's going to be in school for life before she gets everything she wants," Ororo said, shaking her head with a smile.
Scott chuckled and crossed his arms over his chest, "At least she'll be happy."
"Are you okay?" she asked, narrowing her eyes in concern.
Scott felt like those beautiful blue eyes could see into his core, "Yeah. I mean, we tried and it didn't work out. It happens everyday all over the world."
"That doesn't make the pain any easier to deal with," Ororo said standing up. "I'll let you finish grading. What class do you have next?"
Scott rolled his eyes, "Algebra 2. You?"
Ororo laughed, "Biology."
"Why is that funny?"
Her musical laughter sounded again, "We're taking a day off of studying plants...to study the weather."
Now Scott laughed. It sent an involuntary shiver down her spine, "Yeah, you'll have to work hard on that lesson."
"I don't know how I'll get it done. Have fun with...whatever it is you do in Algebra 2," she said waving a hand to him as she exited.
Scott looked back down at the homework papers from his Geometry class, but found it impossible to focus. Four years ago, when the school had actually become just that, he had found it hard to adjust from being the student to the teacher. Jean had tried to help, but helping through Skype just wasn't the same.
Ororo had been there though. Being as she was eight years older than him, she had been able to help him through the most difficult spots where Jean wasn't able. A few months later, Jean and him called it quits in the romantic sector, and back to their comfortable spot as friends. It had hit him hard and, again, Ororo had been there for him where the others couldn't be. Now, at 23, he was finding that teaching was easy. It was the making kids understand part that was difficult.
He didn't know how he was ever going to be able to repay her for everything she had done for him, but he was pretty sure that falling love with her wasn't anyway to do as much.
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